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L'Estrange (Keoltown)
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The Irish L’Estranges are a junior branch of a Norfolk family. Early generations lived at Castle Strange, county Roscommon. A descendant Toriano Francis L’Estrange of 71st Regiment of the Coldstream Guards married Jane Martha a daughter of Thomas Mulock of Kilnagarna, County Offaly. At the time of Griffith’s Valuation (publ. 1854) he was the immediate lessor of three townlands in the parish of Mullingar. In 1850 he is recorded as the tenant of Lynn Lodge when the lodge was advertised for sale. He held the property on a lease from Richard Swift, dated 1841, for 900 years. His son Thomas, a Belfast solicitor, owned 976 acres in county Westmeath in the mid-1870s. The estate (455 acres) of Francis L’Estrange at Keoltown, parish of Mullingar was advertised for sale in March 1851. The L’Estranges held Keoltown for the previous hundred and fifty years at least, under a lease renewable for ever, dated 1701. see also http://www.bomford.net/IrishBomfords/Chapters/Chapter15/Chapter15.htm
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